as in apartment
a room or set of rooms in a private house or a block used as a separate dwelling place
an exhibit of pictures showing the tenements of the New York City neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen during the 1920s
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Recent Examples of tenement
In 1940, when Marty was 10, Sarah left Morris and moved with the kids to a tenement across the street from Seward Park, a public space that happened to have a communal ping-pong table.
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Julien Levy, Rolling Stone, 27 Dec. 2025
Fisk explains that set designers built a modular system of tenement fronts that covered the ground-level building fronts.
—Pat Saperstein, Variety, 27 Dec. 2025
The streets, tenements, fire-escapes, the elders, and the urgent concerns of childhood—or, rather, the helpless intensity of anguish with which one watches one’s childhood disappear—are rendered very vividly indeed by Louise Meriwether, in her first novel, Daddy Was a Number Runner.
—Literary Hub, 22 Dec. 2025
In 1962, a blaze tore through a tenement building, leaving 44 dead.
—Shawna Kwan, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2025
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Julien Levy, Rolling Stone, 27 Dec. 2025
Fisk explains that set designers built a modular system of tenement fronts that covered the ground-level building fronts.
—Pat Saperstein, Variety, 27 Dec. 2025
The streets, tenements, fire-escapes, the elders, and the urgent concerns of childhood—or, rather, the helpless intensity of anguish with which one watches one’s childhood disappear—are rendered very vividly indeed by Louise Meriwether, in her first novel, Daddy Was a Number Runner.
—Literary Hub, 22 Dec. 2025
In 1962, a blaze tore through a tenement building, leaving 44 dead.
—Shawna Kwan, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tenement
Noun
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These vacation rentals range from cozy stays for a couple to more spacious apartments fit for a family; all right in the center of the city, all with their own take on its rich history of art and architecture.—
Elly Leavitt,
Vogue,
9 Feb. 2026
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In the inside part of the apartment building’s mailbox — accessible only to building management and mail carriers — law enforcement found notes indicating that mail should be delivered to Cynthia’s apartment for several of the pseudonyms used in the scheme, authorities said.—
Louis Casiano,
FOXNews.com,
9 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Each penthouse owner will get a car, the cost of which is included in the price of the condo, David said.—
Catherine Odom,
Miami Herald,
6 Feb. 2026
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The Setai has 91 Art Deco rooms inside the landmark building, as well as 57 ocean suites, three pool villas, and one four-bedroom penthouse suite, which are all in the newer Setai tower.—
Devorah Lev-Tov,
Robb Report,
5 Feb. 2026
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“Tenement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tenement. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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